NFTE blog

As districts forge career and technical education tracks to better serve their students, not incorporating the Entrepreneurial Mindset would be the missed opportunity of the century.

In a historic moment of great opportunity—with more information, tools, and educational resources at our fingertips than ever before—73 million youth are unemployed globally, and in the next 20 years, there will be at least 600 million more young people looking for work than projected jobs.

This summer, hundreds of high school students across the country participated in NFTE summer BizCamps, creating original business ideas and business plans and presenting to a panel of judges for the opportunity to win seed funding.

NFTE is so excited to be hosting our first Entrepreneurial Mindset Summit in October, bringing together thought leaders to address a defining challenge and opportunity of our time: How do we equip youth with the entrepreneurial skills required in the new global economy?

We at NFTE feel a moral imperative to bring together talent in education, labor, policy, research, and entrepreneurship to meet this challenge.

As part of NFTE’s Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project presented by the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Coca-Cola Foundation, high school girls learned to approach the world with an innovator's eye and a founder's grit.